SUNDAY SPORT.
(To i.lie Editor). Sir. —Those who voted against sports on Sunday on the Oval are to be highly congratulated. To give your readers an idea of what is taking place in Great Britain the following is a cutting from the Church of Christ Weekly of January 27, 1939:—“Huge vested interests —making sordid money gains out of the profanation of the Lord’s Day—are becoming more daring. A few facts: 250,000 shops are open in England every Lord’s Day; 40,000 in London alone : 2.000.000 workers, 1 in 8 of our adult working population, through various Sunday employments have lost their Sunday rest, and the number is increasing. Only 1 in 10 persons in many areas attend God’s house on Sundays; 3 public houses to every 1 place of worship are open nn Sundays in England; 4,000,000 hoys and girls, the men and women of the futurd, are outside the Sunday schools or Bible classes; Sunday prize-fights are being staged in a number of places. Sunday games. Sunday cinemas, Sunday cabarets, Sunday bridge parties, Sunday political meetings are becoming more widespread. Other Sunday Jospoiiers are clamouring for Sunday theatres, Sunday cupties, Sunday horse-races Sunday general elections. —I am. etc., 11. G.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 92, 20 March 1939, Page 8
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200SUNDAY SPORT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 92, 20 March 1939, Page 8
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